Reviews
The Elusive Highland Beauty
With their debut funded by a Kickstarter campaign, The Elephant Sessions describe themselves as a ‘neo-trad quintet forged in the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Giant + Guitar
Wewantsounds continues its remarkable work in excavating long deleted Arabic albums of the 1970s and reissuing them on LP (and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: January/February/2022
Bêdawîtî
Based in Germany, Kurdish tanbur (lute) player Cemîl Qoçgîrî has worked with Kurdish singer Aynur, notably on the Hawniyaz album...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2018
Siphr
Siphr (Zero) is the first studio album by the Lebanese-American musician, artist and educator Naima Shalhoub. With playing and writing...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Tribute to Irakere
Paying tribute to your former band might sound like a vainglorious kind of nostalgia, if it weren’t for the fact...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2016
From There to Here
It’s high time Omar Puente received his due. The Yorkshire–based Cuban violin virtuoso and jazzer has been just outside the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Navega Mundos
Fusion albums often throw out intriguing hints at what the planet's future might sound like: free-form, multi-faceted, deliciously deracinated. Laura...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2016
Hongo Calling
Billed as the new soul voice of Cameroon, Blick Bassy is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and percussionist whose Bassa-language solo debut...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Radical Raptors
Roberto Zanisi is a well-known virtuoso on a variety of Eastern Mediterranean string instruments, like the bouzouki and cümbüş, with...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: April/2021
